My first part, a GPU came in today and I'm not sure if I ruined it by touching it.
I live in a house which is around 90% floored with carpet and own a pet cat. The GPU is the first part of my system and me being a dumbass who was excited at the prospect of finally building a computer, took it straight out the box and started poking it and picking it up, and now looking back on that around 3 hours later, I'm a dumbass.
Can I have done damage to it? It's quite an expensive graphics card (Vega 56) and to break it would put me back into 3 years of saving up pocket money again, so I really don't wanna mess it up.
Edit: No anti-static wrist strap, that hasn't come yet.
Posted Jul 23, 2019, 3:44 PM UTC
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